The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-29
A HOGGISH TRICK.
How an Old Sow Climbed a High
Fence.
F1.oa the MnshuiIle Union.

From the NdShUHLe Union.
There is a moonshirer now in this city at
tending the Federal Court who tells q most
marvellous tale about an old SOW he sold last
Saturday to a butcher on Broad street. He
came to this city for trial from away up in
the Cumberland mountains, being dealer
in mountain dew" without license. His
fine was larger than he expected, so he was
compelled to sell his hog at a sacrifice, so as
to raise money enough TO keep him out of
the jug. The ''wildcatter tells the following
ridiculous tale: YES, sir, tine aforesaid hog
was a remarkable animal She never failed
to come up at feeding time, and knowed her
name as well as you knows your'n. The
smartest thing she ever did was to climb a
ten-rail fence. I'll tell yer how that wus
Yer see that old SOW wus so gentle that she
wus of kinder privileged character, and
run anywhere about the place she wanted
to. SO finally she made her way into the
woods lot, and in the middle of this lot my
oldest son, Sam, had a thriving turnip
patch. Well, that old hog wasn't next door
to something to eat long before she disciv-
cred it. On the second day after she got
into the woods lot she wus in the middle of
that patch enjoying herself on them nice
all around the fence of the patch, but
couldn't find a hole big enough for a 800
pound hog to crawl through. We laid down
the fence and driv her out. The next day
she WIS back agin, but Their was no hole dis
civerable, SO Sam and me concluded that
we never put up the fence good. But the
next day it was the same old tale, and by
this time that Old SOW had teetotally ruined
half the patch. She always climbed the
fence as if she was afeared of being cot, for
nobody ever saw her trying to get i'll the
patch.
"Just for curiosity thought ! would stay
up, if it were all night, and see how that
hog got into them turnips. One night after
had fed the stock | crawled into the corn
crib unbelnowns to anybody. The crib was
at one end of the woods lot, so | had good
view of the patch and the sow too. AS luck
would have it, the moon was shining bright
and / could sec almost us plain as day. |
stayed and stayed until l begun to think
that the old hog was agoin to fool me and
knowed that | was awatching her. But
after she had eaten up all the grains of corn
that had leaked through the floor of the
crib she started toward the turnip patch.
When she reached the fence she stopped and
looked around as if to see If anybody was
looking When satisfied that she was not
being watched she walked to the right hand
side of the patch On this side of the patch
there is a steep hill, and on this hill right
close to the patch fence there growed q
good sized dogwood tree with stout limb
that reached nearly to the patch fence On
this limb was a oneinch grass rope, part of
a swing the children had there once upon a
time Well, when / saw that hog take that
rope in her mouth and begin TO draw the
limb down TO her, like to hollered with ex-
element. She kept drawing the limb down
and her body off the ground until her hind
feet barely touched the earth. After steady
ing herself a moment, then with the help of
the limb and the tips of her toes she started
up the steep hillside. After getting on n
level with the fence she reared back so far
that the limb jerled her clean over the
fence as il she had been sucking pig, set
ting her over the fence ms nicely as II IL had
been placed there by a derrick That WAS
enough. ] was satisfied how the SOW got
into the turnip patch, SO next morning
told Sam not 10 disturb her, and | would
buy him n single-barTel shotgun the fust
time went 10 town But the old SOW got
80 bad that had % bring her 30 town aud
sell her, and YOU jest bet she came in mighty
handy for the money got for her kept me
out Of that little sweat-bOx at Franklin. /
do believe In year or two | would have
had 10 cut down all the trees about my
place 10 keep the old hog outer my loft